Drama

Crime

La Fille au bracelet

Petit Film

France 3 Cinéma

Frakas Productions

Belgium

France

Français

The Girl with a Bracelet

Roschdy Zem

Chiara Mastroianni

Melissa Guers

Anaïs Demoustier

Annie Mercier

Pascal Garbarini

Paul Aïssaoui-Cuvelier

Carlo Ferrante

Anne Paulicevich

Victoria Jadot

Mikaël Halimi

Léo Moreau

Xavier Maly

Vincent Colombe

Philippe Rolland

Enola S. Cluzeau

Sébastien Landry

Gaëlle Monnier

Manuel Schapira

Katy Menard-Pageau

Emilie Lehuraux

Sabrina Delarue

Franck Fouret

David Mougenet

Lucie Monziès

Jean-Paul Borleteau

Sindy Chathuant

Clémentine Dubreil

Isabelle Durante

Annie Guével

Callum Houston

Étienne Ménard

Jean-Pierre Morice

Guilhem Amesland

Aurélia Hollart

Bénédicte Kermadec

Georges Harnack

Stéphane Demoustier

Julie Brenta

Cassandre Warnauts

Sylvain Verdet

Anne-Sophie Gledhill

Emmanuel Bonnat

Jean des Forêts

Damien Maestraggi

Amélie Jacquis

Jean-Yves Roubin

Catherine Cosme

Carla Pallone

Ulises Porra

Gonzalo Tobal

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I usually find with French courtroom dramas a refreshing lack of formality and deference. That's not to say that it's a free for all, but the ebbing and flowing of testimony and barrister intervention seems to me far more likely to facilitate a more accurate verdict. "Lise" (Melissa Guers) has been arraigned on a charge of the murder of her best friend "Flora". She was found stabbed multiple times in a bed they had shared the night before. The prosecutor (Anaïs Demoustier) is alleging that a leaked, intimate, video of "Lise" and their friend "Nathan" (Mikaël Halimi) was the source of the violence but she denies that. As the investigation proceeds, we begin to realise that nothing is simple here. "Lise" turns out to be a sexually active girl and the trial sort of shifts from an evaluation of her guilt and innocence into one of youth, profligacy, morals and behaviour. At that, it's quite provocative and the young Guers delivers well. She portrays the character convincingly, lacking in confidence and emanating quite a genuine sense of bemused bewilderment coupled with a remarkable degree of self-control. It's quite clear that as her parents learn a little more of their daughter's peccadilloes that they, too, have demons to face - and at times you do wonder if her dad "Bruno" (Roschdy Zem) is entirely sure of her innocence. Annie Mercier is also quite effective as the girl's legal counsel presenting a far less confrontational style then the prosecutor and for the bulk of this ninety minutes, we have quite a decent drama that does ask you not just whom you believe, but also - what were you like at that age. The trial itself seems a little weak, but as a vehicle for quite a characterful performance from Guers it's worth watching.

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Roschdy Zem

Chiara Mastroianni

Melissa Guers

Anaïs Demoustier

Annie Mercier

Pascal Garbarini

Paul Aïssaoui-Cuvelier

Carlo Ferrante

Anne Paulicevich

Victoria Jadot

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